Buried Under Books

REVIEW: ‘A New Order’ by Dan Batchelor

‘Jack Palmer had seen the movies: when aliens invade, humans will come together to save the world.’ Unfortunately for Jack, when a superior alien race decide to invade earth, it seems the films are wrong: cowed by their brutally dispassionate taskmasters, whose punishment for every infarction, however minor, is instant death, most humans rapidly learn […]

REVIEW: ‘Facets of Death’ by Michael Stanley

This was my introduction to ‘Sunshine Noir’, which is apparently similar to Nordic Noir but set in brighter, sunnier climes, specifically, in ‘Facets of Death’, in Botswana. I am late to the party, both to the subgenre and to the world of Detective Kubu, but I’m glad to have finally investigated this treasure. Speaking of […]

REVIEW: ‘Magda Revealed’ by Ursula Werner

‘Call me Magda’, invites Mary Magdalene, and I’ll tell you the truth about Jesus and I… Mary Magdalene has been the subject of much discussion in the two thousand odd years since she, Jesus and Jesus’ disciples preached in ancient Galilee. Now, in Ursula Werner’s modern retelling of Mary’s life, ‘Magda’ gives readers her own […]

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